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Rare Compound Oxygen Box (Circa 1880)

November 1, 2012

If this product were still around today… Lance Armstrong would certainly have been all over it!!

Amazing early quack medicine item! Drs. Starky & Palen Compound Oxygen, Philadelphia. (8.75” x 6.5” x 3.25). Front label shows elegantly dressed Victorian woman using Compound Oxygen by inhaling through a glass tube – side labels show images of the Compound Oxygen bottles – labels on lid, sides and front – box features dovetailed corners with a hinged lid complete with original, ornate brass hinges. You see the compound oxygen bottles from time to time, but these original boxes with their fragile paper labels are very scarce.